A 32-year-old Springport man has been sentenced as part of a plea agreement in Cayuga County Court.
Justin Mariani, 32, of Springport was sentenced to four years in state prison and 10 years in state prison for two counts of third-degree rape.
The sentences will run concurrently, according to prosecutors.
Mariani’s victims were in the court room for sentencing. The younger of the two victims- who was 17 at the time of Mariani’s attack- had a statement ready by prosecutors.
“If I had known that you would take a piece of me with you, I would have never gotten in that car,” the statement read. Cayuga County Senior Assistant District Attorney Heather De Stefano read it. “I will never let what you did define who I am.”
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